Friday, November 20, 2015

Guest post for Bethany: Three Nervous Turkeys!

I'm so happy to be hosting Bethany on my blog! She is Head of Children's Services at the Bedford Free Public Library. She has a really fun song/rhyme in time for Thanksgiving!

Three Nervous Turkeys

A Thanksgiving flannel board song

I found Five Nervous Turkeys on the ALSC blog (http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2013/11/give-thanks-for-storytime/). The song is funny, filled with my favorite
autumn fowl, and easy to make with free clipart. But, as I searched for images and hummed
along, I wanted a chorus for everyone to sing and a new verse for the ducks. 5 turkeys, with a full chorus between each
verse, plus a final verse to acknowledge the duckiness … is too long for my
young storytime kids! I reduced the
turkeys to 3 and scavenged my surplus turkeys for silly mistakes on the duck
costumes.